Is there anything remotley metal in India ? are there Indian tapes pressings ? ..The only thing I know was Hanoi Rocks played there in 1982 !!!

Unlike other Asian countries, we were never too crazy about tapes. We used to listen to them because we had no other option before the advent of the internet and online ordering. True fans however found ways to acquire original metal cds even back then.

It's been ages since I last visited a big music store but there were indeed a lot of Indian tape pressings available of Earache, Metal Blade (and one more record label) titles. There used to be cds too available of those labels and Roadrunner, but only for a brief period as apparently most of the fans back then found it very expensive. Then a smartass Indian label decided to have its own pressing of those titles which we unanimously boycotted because of inferior cd quality.